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began like this

 

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and then…i don't know why,  though she is sleeping/dreaming,  she is holding a flag.  ???

 

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and this very small figure…drawn with ink,  then bled with turpentine.  Barely discernible but some kind of magician.  i want to make this square.  Why all squares when i am so much a circle person?

and then….

 

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a double click might be good.  Don't know till i poke Publish.  Maybe.  And i don't know at all why the urge for this.  Pulled the mirror out from behind the shelves in the bedroom.  Windex.  then this selfie… in my daily outfit for a couple months now.  a pair of camouflage pants,  boy's size,  from the Thrift Shop.  over leggings.  always the grey longsleeve shirt,  i have a few,  and the T shirt over these changes as need be.   i like the roominess of the pants.  more comfortable than levis and also,  since it's kind of a forest floor/leaf litter motif,  i guess they are hunting pants, ….nothing "shows".    This is what i wear.  Every day.  But Why the pic?  i don't know.  I watch all the gatherings of people across the country to stand for what they stand for this Saturday before Martin Luther King day and in the days preceding the day of Shame in the capitol of the United States of America.  There is such an URGE to call Travis to stay here,  get in the car and drive to Be There.  To Stand.  Car wouldn't make it.   I wouldn't leave Tay and the Goats.   So maybe i wanted to just look at this person i am in the moment.  Document her.  in this moment.  Me.  January, 2017.  a time like none i have ever known.

 

 

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23 responses to “many questions, no answers”

  1. Liz A Avatar

    I hope to march in Austin next weekend … if so, I will carry you with me

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  2. grace Avatar

    oh…YES. and i am looking under the hoods of both the
    honda car and the pickup….deciding if i can do the
    Albuquerque trip

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  3. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Love the outfit and the lady wearing it! My friend will be marching with the women in Sacramento… I would love to be with her but did knit her a pussyhat with some of my DNA (hair) knitted into it … makes me happy knowing that at least a part of me is marching with her.

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  4. grace Avatar

    LOVE this, Tina…i w ish i could type i NEON
    LOVE THIS TINA
    and that you knitted in some of your HAIR…oh, EEEEEEEEEEEEEE
    and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    o
    Thank You so so much

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  5. Michelle in NYC Avatar

    Hey. There you are…standing with all of us out here. I’ll be holding you in my heart when I rally with writers on the library steps tomorrow, and when (if) I march on the 21st (I have my tickets for both and my intentions too)

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  6. cynthia Avatar
    cynthia

    driving to washington on friday..marching saturday..driving back sunday..different generations in the car..we have all marched different times and places..but this time together..one of our state representatives has knit us our pussyhats….a long drive..but i have stitching..and hazel’s beautiful note cards to write on…my niece saying yesterday…this is for us all..and i feel just like michelle..holding you all in my heart..( and now the small magician as well…) gentle day

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  7. Mo Crow Avatar

    we are the grey warriors, witnessing with souls on deck, ready to mobilize when & where needed all around the world
    namaste

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  8. grace Avatar

    i will look forward to your TELLing of it….

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  9. grace Avatar

    o WOW, just so O and EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
    you are DRIVING amidst the Wholeness of Womanhood, TO
    the WHOLENESS OF WOMANHOOD
    o, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee just how good this makes me Feel…..
    How LUCKY you are to have these women in your life….
    and that small magician……who appeared from NoWhere, but
    who might be here to stay…
    BIG GIANT LOVE CYNTHIA, and when you can, IF you can
    please TELL us what you saw

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  10. grace Avatar

    i have such hopes for this Time, that it will seed
    all that needs to get born during these coming days…
    i have such hopes

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  11. Mo Crow Avatar

    you recommended Rebecca Solnit’s book “Hope in the Dark”, she gives us a way forward to work for change from out on the edges & love this article about the grey nomads role in the upcoming fight to save the Great Barrier Reef from a huge coal mining operation that this rotten Australian government (who are no longer representing the people, they are just puppets manipulated the global corporations) has approved, here’s the link
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/14/adani-coalmine-activists-gear-up-to-fight-this-will-dwarf-the-franklin-blockade

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  12. Martine Bos Avatar

    Oh my…..what can i say? You beautiful woman, making art and caring for your animals and thinking about the world…..
    Sending love Grace……..

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  13. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    Mo’s comment underscores the larger dilemma. Mindless, heedless greedy people are “running” a LOT of countries at this time. But they certainly aren’t fooling all of the people at ALL let alone “some of the time” ultimately this is the silver lining of so much unthinkable madness at the helm. People are finding each other. Re-membering who they really are and how they are as determined as they’ve ever been to walk the talk of it.
    i really so much wanted to be part of the 21st woman’s march on Washington. But my brain injury is still the kind of issue that would make me a huge liability if a group i was in had to suddenly scatter and run. so mainly something of me, and a whole lot more of many other things, will participate by way of that Joyous Warrior remedy you have known on your own terms. That prior experience means you will be linked. you will be there in that form. just so you know…

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  14. Tina Avatar
    Tina

    Me too …

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  15. handstories Avatar

    I love how solid you are, and how this cloth is evolving, and how you see yourself.
    Have knit one hat so far, will go to the Seattle march.

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  16. dee Avatar

    where’s your denim dress?

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  17. grace Avatar

    in the Summer basket

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  18. grace Avatar

    the link is great!

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  19. grace Avatar

    RECEIVING, Martine…THANK YOU

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  20. grace Avatar

    THE jOYOUS wARRIOR…O, I wish i was more joyous more of
    the time now…. i am too serious….
    and it’s is true as you say, people are finding each other

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  21. grace Avatar

    oh…Seattle….this will be Wonder FULL!

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  22. Acey Avatar
    Acey

    oh i think one can be profoundly joyous and quite dead serious at the same time or at least in equal measure. either than or i’ve been doin’ my entire adult wrong …

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